Business Administration Apprentice

ABOUT THE ROLE

The Education Strategy Unit (ESU) is a small and friendly team within the Department for Community and Children’s Services. The business administration apprentice will work within this team helping it to deliver the City Corporation’s Education Strategy. This strategy aims to enhance education experiences for young people in London – especially those who are challenged by disadvantage. The strategy’s priorities are:

•  Supporting educational excellence.
• Promoting personal development.
• Reinforcing safety health & wellbeing.
• Improving employability.
• Embracing cultural and creative learning.

The apprentice will be involved in everything from day-to-day administration of the team, through to exciting large-scale activity such as the London Careers Festival and inter-school events. The successful candidate will be a proactive team player with a high level of self motivation, an appetite for organising, and strong attention to detail.

MAIN DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES

To support the Education Strategy Unit in its delivery of the education strategy by:

• Using appropriate technology (in particular tools within Microsoft 365) to provide administration support to the ESU, including email management, scheduling meetings, minuting, financial administration, stationery and supplies management, document filing and printing.
• Supporting the diary management of the Strategic Director for Education and Skills.
• Providing administrative support for meetings and forums with schools, cultural organisations, businesses and other external stakeholders. This will include: scheduling meetings, distributing agendas and papers, taking accurate minutes and organising basic catering.
• Providing communications assistance to the Education Strategy Unit, including drafting communications to internal and external stakeholders, using the most appropriate channels to communicate effectively.
• Representing the Education Strategy Unit, the Education Board and the City of London Corporation internally and externally as required in relation to all duties of the post.
• Developing effective working relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Maintaining a comprehensive database of contacts across the City Corporation’s Family of Schools, and assisting in managing a database of internal and external contacts.
• Supporting the ESU in their delivery of a variety of in-person events, including the London Careers Festival and the Education Board dinner.

Additionally

• Actively seek to implement the City of London’s Occupational Health and Safety Policy in relation to the duties of the post, and at all times give due regard to the health and safety of both themselves and others when carrying out the duties of the post.
• Actively seek to implement the City of London’s Equal Opportunity Policy and the objective to promote equality of opportunity in relation to the duties of the post.
• Undertake any other duties that may reasonably be requested in relation to the duties of the post.

CANDIDATE REQUIREMENTS

To qualify for this apprenticeship, you will need to be:

• 16 or over by the end of the summer holidays.
• Living in England.
• Not in full-time education at the time of applying.
• If you are a non-UK citizen, you must have permission from the UK government to live in the UK (not for educational purposes), and have been ordinarily resident in the UK for at least the previous three years before the start of the apprenticeship.

To view application support, please click here –->Apprentice Job-Information-Pack 2024 – OCCS651 Business Administration Apprentice